The sum of it all: Revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements

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Highlights:

• Analyses disciplinary differences in researchers’ credit attribution practices in collaborative context by combining co-authors and acknowledgees.

• Traditional differences observed between disciplines in terms of team size are greatly reduced when acknowledgees are taken into account.

• Broadening the measurement of collaboration by including acknowledgements might provide a more accurate assessment of collaboration practices.

摘要

•Analyses disciplinary differences in researchers’ credit attribution practices in collaborative context by combining co-authors and acknowledgees.•Traditional differences observed between disciplines in terms of team size are greatly reduced when acknowledgees are taken into account.•Broadening the measurement of collaboration by including acknowledgements might provide a more accurate assessment of collaboration practices.

论文关键词:Collaboration,Co-authorship,Acknowledgements,Credit attribution

论文评审过程:Received 6 October 2016, Revised 25 November 2016, Accepted 25 November 2016, Available online 1 December 2016, Version of Record 1 December 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.11.005